Cybersecurity
Fixing FISMA, blaming … someone, and another lawsuit
Lawmakers wrestled with the regulatory shortcomings that helped allow the OPM breach to happen as they continued the search for someone to blame. Employee unions, on the other hand, know whom they're blaming.
Cybersecurity
A FOIA app, Chamber targets cyber, shelling out for Shell and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
HHS mirrors Google, bank regulators' IT shortcomings and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
e-QIP fallout and more phishing schemes
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Acquisition
Revealing the RATs and scoring the agencies
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
OPM yanks background check system offline
Weeks after first disclosing massive breaches, OPM has shuttered a vital background check system.
Cybersecurity
Einstein the only winner from another flaying of OPM on the Hill
A key lawmaker said he is readying fresh legislation to accelerate the cyber detection program.
Cybersecurity
OPM contractors in the crosshairs
House Oversight and Government Reform targeted OPM officials and contractors alike for their roles in the massive hack.
Cybersecurity
McCaul says OPM hack should push Senate to act on cyber
The theft of information on federal employees from government systems should provide the Senate with the urgency to pass cybersecurity legislation, according to one of the bill's key House sponsors.
Cybersecurity
Rogers mum on OPM attribution, but says hack shows value of data
The country's top cyber official declined to officially attribute the OPM hack to China, but called the intrusion a reminder of how "data has value as a commodity."
Cybersecurity
IRS-OPM teamwork and a China cyber warning
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
OPM head touts cyber revamp, mum on who’s to blame for breach
Appearing before a Senate committee was a peaceful affair for OPM Director Katherine Archuleta compared to the tongue-lashing she got in the House last week, but she still faced tough questions – and couldn't answer all of them.
Cybersecurity
Unions play watchdog – and roadblock? – roles in OPM disaster
Federal labor unions are holding OPM accountable and fighting for workers after breaches exposed personal data – but did union bargaining help leave government systems vulnerable in the first place?
People
Faster hiring for feds, Army mobile and commercial drones
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers rip OPM's 'failure'
Members of Congress heaped hard questions on federal IT leaders at a June 16 hearing and suggested strongly that somebody needs to be fired.
Cybersecurity
OPM's 'Cyber Pearl Harbor' might affect 14 million
The OPM breach is looking worse than initially projected, with potentially every fed's information compromised. And the breach was discovered during a vendor's sales demonstration.
Cybersecurity
OPM records the 'Holy Grail' of counter-intelligence
'Very old systems' and a lot of valuable, unencrypted data left millions vulnerable, despite the application of interior and perimeter defenses.
People
Are you one of the 4 million? Here's what to watch for
OPM is partnering with CSID to try to manage the fallout from a massive breach of some 4 million federal personnel records.
People
USAJobs makeover is OPM's summer job this year
OPM plans to address problems with the federal job portal with an agile, continuous delivery approach this summer.
Cybersecurity
Senators question Thrift Savings Plan's security
The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee want to know more about TSP's cybersecurity.
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